Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.
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New Databricks KARL RAG Agent Promises 33% Cost Reduction vs. Claude Opus 4.6

Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower ...

Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did

Qdrant's $50M Series B and version 1.17 release make the case that agentic AI didn't simplify vector search — it scaled the ...
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Qdrant Launches Groundbreaking Pure Vector-Based Hybrid Search, Setting Higher Standards for RAG and AI Applications

BERLIN & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qdrant, the leading high-performance open-source vector database, today announced the launch of BM42, a pure vector-based hybrid search approach that delivers more ...
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Want AI agents to work better? Improve the way they retrieve information, Databricks says

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Nvidia snags the team and tech from AI chip startup Groq…Meta buys Manus AI…AI gets better at improving AI…but we might not know enough about the brain ...